Piddling vs Puny - What's the difference?
piddling | puny | Synonyms |
Insignificant, negligible, paltry, trivial, useless.
(obsolete) A new pupil at a school etc.; a junior student.
(obsolete) A younger person.
*, II.12:
(obsolete) A beginner, a novice.
(archaic) An inferior person; a subordinate.
Of inferior size, strength or significance.
* Shakespeare
* Keble
Piddling is a synonym of puny.
As adjectives the difference between piddling and puny
is that piddling is insignificant, negligible, paltry, trivial, useless while puny is of inferior size, strength or significance.As a verb piddling
is .As a noun puny is
(obsolete) a new pupil at a school etc; a junior student.piddling
English
Adjective
(-)- After all the work I'd done, he gave me a piddling amount of money.
- The ignoble hucksterage of piddling tithes. — Milton.
Verb
(head)puny
English
Noun
(punies)- a law that the eldest or first borne child shall succeed and inherit all: where nothing at all is reserved for Punies , but obedience.
- (Fuller)
Adjective
(er)- A puny subject strikes at thy great glory.
- Breezes laugh to scorn our puny speed.